Bamboo has been back and forth across our radar ever since TreeHugger was but a sprout, and we’ve seen the wonder-grass used for just about everything. And, while bamboo isn’t always super-green, there’s no denying its utilitarian handiness. Take a spin through the wonderful world of bamboo, in pictures.

Mobile Movement has partnered with the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT and Environmental Youth Alliance - a Canadian non-profit organization - for our first initiative in Nairobi, Kenya. All of the 15 youth groups have been chosen by UN-HABITAT as part of the “Urban Entrepreneurship Program”.

Thousands of smallholder farmers produce over one million bags of top quality, organic coffee beans for export every year, he said. But he stressed that there was a need for processing plants to be set up to increase export revenue and create more jobs for the local population. He said investors were even welcome to come and grow the coffee themselves. However, he indicated that Uganda would not allow wholesale land purchases by foreign states or investors and local farmers would not be forced to sell.

Over the last 3 to 4 decades, there have been (and there still continues to be) numerous migrating activities where Africans have found their way out of the continent in pursuit of higher level of education and living standards. Many countries have experienced and continue to experience these life changing movements due to the poor or non-developing conditions of almost all parts of the African continent. Out of the many people that migrated out, most if not all of them settled down overseas where they started their own businesses and became involved in the social-economical and political affairs of their respective new countries.